Electronic Products from APA

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Electronic Products from APA

Gateway to the World of Psychology

Linda BeebeAmerican Psychological Association

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Thank you for inviting us!

October 1998 visit extremely informative

Listened and learned: Needed prices for small institutions,

public libraries, community colleges. PsycLIT did not satisfy needs. Needed discounts for consortia. Wanted full text.

Here to learn more!

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American Psychological

Association

Since 1892, our mission has been to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting human welfare.

The information products from this diverse discipline serve many people in related fields.

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Society Perspective

Knowledge development & dissemination priority in decisions on quality and depth

Close connections with field through members

Partnerships and alliancesPublisher of both primary and

secondary materials

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As a society, two major constituencies—

APA Members>155,000 members,

affiliates, and student members

46% academicSubscribe to journals

in large numbers.Now buy access to

electronic products.

LibrariesVery supportive of

APA publicationsPartners in

delivering professional knowledge to researchers, students, and others

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Two Major Databases

PsycINFO1.7 million records1887 to presentBooks, chapters,

journals, dissertations

Extensive ThesaurusPrecision of recallLinks

PsycARTICLES42 journals from

APA and others1988 to present25,000 articlesNow SGML, adding

PDFs this summerLinks

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PsycINFO Breadth of Coverage

Psychology PsychiatryBusinessCriminal JusticeEducationHuman ResourcesLaw

LinguisticsMedicineNursingSocial WorkSociologyPsychopharmacolo

gyPhysiology

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Retrievable Sources

9%

77%

13% 1%

Books & Chapters

Journal Articles

Dissertations

Reports & OthersN=1.7 millionN=1.7 million

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Around the World

4% 1%1%

2%

17%

1%

60%

14%

Asia, India & Pakistan

Australia & New Zealand

Central & South America

Eastern Europe

Europe

Middle East & Africa

North America

United Kingdom & Ireland

N=1,528

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Global and Complete Coverage

56 countries represented in current coverage

Original publications in 26 languages

99.5% of journal records from 1967 to 2001 have abstracts

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Business Changes 2000

Introduced tiered pricing to answer concerns about small institutions.

Published prices on the Web to clarify what APA’s fees are.

Simplified licenses.Instituted gradual pricing as needed.Created one product—PsycINFO.Implemented consortia discounts.

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Mistaken Impressions

Peterson’s Wanted fair and

easy way to verify FTEs across vendors for consistency.

Knew institutions supply the numbers.

Did not understand the promotional aspects.

Communications Sent letters to all

customers in May. Put information on

the Web in May. Relied on vendors. Timing problems. Needed much

more.

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Changes Being Made

Using federal statistics or data libraries supply to funders as sources.

Redoubling efforts to meet with vendors sales forces.

Developing new communications plan.Trying to anticipate problems earlier.Gathering data on other pricing

models.

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Coverage Changes 2000

Changed internal processing — now 3-week turnaround for journal evaluations.

Actively seeking journals from outside North America.

Developed clear criteria for acceptance with feedback.

Publisher Relations Page — www.apa.org/psycinfo/publishers

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New PsycINFO Features

PsycINFO Direct (6/99)Weekly Updates (6/2000)Publisher URLsDOIs Country of PublicationClinical Trials Designation9th Edition of Thesaurus (all 11/2000)

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Stay Tuned—More to Come

Peer review designation

More linksAuthor emailEven faster

turnaroundMuch more dataBroader coverage — and more!

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Many Options for PsycINFO

SubsetsPsychological

Abstracts (in print since 1927)

ClinPSYC8 specialized

SCANs in print and online; Psychopharmacology in 2000

ComplementaryPsycVIDEO in 2001

TransactionalPsycINFO Direct

Dialog, DIMDI, OCLC, Ovid

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Licenses for PsycINFO

8 Outside Vendors: Aries, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCO, OCLC, Ovid, ProQuest, ScienceDirect (summer 2001), SilverPlatter

APA OnlineDirect Load

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And what about full text?

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PsycARTICLES Launching

Full-text article database Knowledge base, not individual journals. Now contains 25,000 articles across this

diverse field.Not diluted in aggregations—

customers don’t pay for content in different collections; titles will not come and go.

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PsycARTICLES

38 APA journals + 3 CPA + 1 H&HAPA back to 1988 overall 25,000 articlesRetrospective + new volume each

yearAll integrated in one databaseReference linking with DOIs

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Learnings from Beta Tests

Institution Needs Journal title

coverage lists for Electronic Journal postings

Links to tables of contents

More refined usage reports

User Needs Browsing as well as

searching Easy access to

historic as well as current tables of contents

PDFs

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Administration Issues

Added course packs and electronic reserves to the PsycARTICLES contract.

Added InterLibrary Loan for print copies of electronic files.

Continue to support walk-in access as we always have for PsycINFO.

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Access Options

Available through APA for data fee plus 20% technology fee or by direct load.

Signed contract with EBSCO 4/5/01 for delivery no later than 10/15.

Close to contracts with Ovid, ScienceDirect, SilverPlatter.

Have begun discussions with others.Transactional by summer.

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Learning from Customers

Breakfast forum 1/2001 during ALAFocus groups for PsycARTICLES in

1/2001Meetings with vendor sales forcesMeetings in conjunction with major

conferencesForums during MLA and ALA this springExhibits at library & psychology events

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Can You Tell Us?

Communications Best Methods? Email? Mail? Phone? New Library Web page Reaching the right person With us—call or email us (see last slide)

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What About Pricing& Vendor/Quote Process??

PricingContinuing to

review pricing.Want to hear

success stories.What works best

for you and producer?

ProcessGet info you need?Changes in vendor

questions?Experiences with

the quote process?How can we

improve?

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And more questions. . .

Perpetual Access Working on policy. What are you getting from others?

Linking Adding DOIs to both databases. Signing linking agreements. What else are you interested in? What are you doing in SFX/Open URL?

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Still More Questions. . .

PsycINFO ContentNew topics?Desired features?Different media?More historical?

Usage ReportsGetting from

vendor?From us—access to

URL OK?Special needs?

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APA—Looking to the Future

Growth and Innovation Based on Feedback from Customers and Users

Broader coverageMore services for user, library, publisherOngoing commitment to quality,

currency, and depth More links and more options.

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We enjoyed the visit.

We very much appreciate your taking the time to talk with us . . .

and we look forward to continued discussions.

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Talk to Us at APA Linda Beebe, Senior Director, PsycINFO

202-336-5636 or 1-800-374-2722 [email protected]

Sheila Brooks, Manager, Leasing & Licensing202-218-3980 or [email protected]

Carolyn Gosling, Manager, Customer Relations202-336-5644 or [email protected] TTY/TDD 336-6123

www.apa.org/psycinfo